Zee Media Bureau
Kolkata/New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday came down heavily on Baba Ramdev for using "gutter language" and the party also dragged Bharatiya Janata Party`s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi into the controversy for not condemning yoga guru`s comments.
Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi told reporters, "I don`t know who calls him baba. Yoga has a spiritual and a physical dimension... With this kind of a mindset, using a gutter language... insulting dalits... insulting women... how can anyone call him a yoga guru."
"I think people have forgotten that Baba Ramdev has spent all of his energies for last several weeks not on yoga but on Modi...on the BJP," Singhvi added.
Dubbing BJP`s culture as that of "bigotry and intolerance", Singhvi questioned Modi`s inaction to stop such statements from Ramdev.
"He (Ramdev) has shared the stage with Modi and it is very easy to brush off all this, but who are these people? They reflect a mindset, a culture of bigotry and intolerance."
He questioned what Modi had done to condemn Ramdev, or if he had expelled Giriraj Singh or denied a ticket to Sanjeev Balian.
Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh also took on Modi over Ramdev`s comments and tweeted, "We would like Modi and BJP to react to Ramdev`s anti Dalit remark."
Ramdev's remark Anti Dalit. He must publicly apologise. We would like Modi and BJP to react to Ramdev's anti Dalit remark.
— digvijaya singh (@digvijaya_28) April 26, 2014
Giriraj Singh, BJP`s Lok Sabha candidate from Bihar`s Nawada constituency, recently said critics of Modi will be sent to Pakistan.
Balian, BJP candidate from Muzaffarnagar, was accused of involvement in the communal riots that took place in Uttar Pradesh last year.
With Agency Inputs
